When the Dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun.swift river's best or broadest lake, to ward the Dead and haven make.if water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

So, the socket has to communicate to the bulb to cut the power to the socket?

It won't change the power status of the bulb until the bulb confirms that it has successfully applied the update by reporting the signature of the firmware it has installed, countersigned by an authorised software management key.Or something idiotic like that.

So, the socket has to communicate to the bulb to cut the power to the socket?

It won't change the power status of the bulb until the bulb confirms that it has successfully applied the update by reporting the signature of the firmware it has installed, countersigned by an authorised software management key.Or something idiotic like that.

Internet of Thing fans would shove the bulb up their ass to secure an enlightened chain of trust

So, the socket has to communicate to the bulb to cut the power to the socket?

It won't change the power status of the bulb until the bulb confirms that it has successfully applied the update by reporting the signature of the firmware it has installed, countersigned by an authorised software management key.Or something idiotic like that.

Internet of Thing fans would shove the bulb up their ass to secure an enlightened chain of trust

Why your <small> tag has leaked out of the quote to make the font of my reply small? Nude bug?

So, the socket has to communicate to the bulb to cut the power to the socket?

It won't change the power status of the bulb until the bulb confirms that it has successfully applied the update by reporting the signature of the firmware it has installed, countersigned by an authorised software management key.Or something idiotic like that.

Inkjet printers ahve been getting away with that shit for years now and are just now starting to get flack for it, are you SURPRISED that the fine folks at the internet of things stole that playbook?

cause i'm not.

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When the Dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun.swift river's best or broadest lake, to ward the Dead and haven make.if water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

I got some spam from the IEEE Computer Society for a "FREE IoT Event" in Denver 1 Nov. Anybody near there want to go ask the speakers some pointed questions about security? Let me know; I'll give you the link to register.

So, the socket has to communicate to the bulb to cut the power to the socket?

It won't change the power status of the bulb until the bulb confirms that it has successfully applied the update by reporting the signature of the firmware it has installed, countersigned by an authorised software management key.Or something idiotic like that.

Internet of Thing fans would shove the bulb up their ass to secure an enlightened chain of trust

Sounds like an ideal use for those old incandescent bulbs(1) we all have lurking in a corner of the house. I have some that are rated for 100W on Edison Screw (E27?) fittings.(2)

(1) In keeping with previous discussions, I went to my Carrefour and investigated their LED-bulb offerings. They have a much wider range of power equivalences now, all the way up to 100W equivalent.

(2) The British generally use bayonet fittings for full-size sockets, while the Americans generally use screw-thread fittings ("Edison screw", generally E27). The French, in a spirit of fraternité, use both, although not in the same socket. I have yet to try to find out why, but some of the 60W fittings in my flat use screw-thread bulbs, while others use bayonet bulbs. It's really annoying.

@Steve_The_Cynic Before the early '70s, bayonet fittings used to be the most common fitting in France, but they have been largely superceded by the Euro-standardised E14/E27/E40. You can still get BA22 bulbs and fittings, but it's getting harder and harder to do so.

Not sure if there's really much difference in safety or ease of use between the two.

The septics use their own almost compatible standards, as per usual. They don't use E27, it's E26 over there.

@Bulb Amen to that. My halogens are GU5.3, I want to swap them for LEDs but that probably means throwing away the transformers, etc, If I'm doing that I might as well bin the lot and go GU10, the bulbs are cheaper.

@Bulb I lived in a newly built house in the UK and all ceilings had some weird fittings which looked like it was a low-energy bulb with the electronics in the fitting instead of in the bulb. Which makes sense (assuming the part that breaks is not the electronics), but I never saw this fitting anywhere else, and more worryingly I never saw any matching bulb in any shop.

Luckily for me, the bulbs lasted longer than I lived there (which was about 5-6 years, so at least they were not too shitty...) so I never really needed new ones, but to this day I have no idea what standard they were.

@tufty I don't know if they really outlast filament bulbs (actually, I know they don't, you are right...) but I find that in practice, under normal conditions (*) they last long enough that it doesn't matter.

I still have some old ones that are more than 10 years old (you know, leftovers from previous homes that stayed at the bottom of the bulb-box...) and work perfectly. To me, that's long enough that if they last less than conventional bulbs, I won't really see the difference.

(*) I know, everyone has weird stories of a socket that burnt bulbs in a few months or so... mine is an outside lamp in my front garden, I guess some water must creep in somehow.

We should combine the shoes with solar roadways, then they could charge as you walk.

If I can charge a torch or radio with kinetic energy, I should be able to charge shoes by walking anyway. But I'm really waiting for a USB-mitochondria adapter that I can install in my arm and charge devices by burning calories,all without leaving my seat.

But I'm really waiting for a USB-mitochondria adapter that I can install in my arm and charge devices by burning calories,all without leaving my seat.

You’d sell that kind of gadget faster than you can make them to all the fat people who want to reach some kind of idealised weight they’ll never get to even if they do manage to put down their smartphones for more than two minutes.

I didn't scroll horizontally to capture the rest of that captcha, but it had the horizontal scroll bar at least (the header image was cut off even if I scrolled it right). And a vertical scroll bar, since it was around 3-4x as tall as the onebox.